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Cote d’Ivoire Prime Minister, Daniel Duncan on Monday, announced that he and his entire government were stepping down. According to report, a cabinet reshuffle had already been expected, but it was delayed because of a mutiny by soldiers over pay, local media reported. Cote d’Ivoire’s prime minister Daniel Kablan Duncan resigned along with his government Monday, a day after the end of a short-lived army mutiny that raised security fears in the world’s top cocoa producer. Although the resignation is standard procedure as it follows legislative elections in December, it comes at a time of mounting speculation that former rebel…

A group of persons on Monday, January 9 stormed the Passports Office in Accra to ostensibly take over the facility. The group said to have stormed the place in shirts marked ‘Invisible Forces’ demanded the immediate exit of the Director of Passports. Invisible Forces is the security appendage of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). But moments after the incident, the National Youth Organiser of NPP, Sammi Awuku, visited the Office to dissuade the group from their action. He is said to have asked the supporters to remain calm as the transition process progresses peacefully. The group claimed they had…

The Minority National Democratic Congress in Parliament insists the president, Nana Akufo-Addo, withdraws a speech delivered at his inauguration on Saturday after it emerged that portions were “plagiarized”. Whilst castigating the president’s speechwriters of not being original, the Minority in a statement issued by its Deputy Leader James Klutse Avedzi mentioned the embarrassment the speech has purportedly brought to the nation. “It is indeed shocking that for a presidential campaign that anchored its core message on competence and incorruptibility will on its first day in office fall short of its pledge in such a spectacularly disgraceful manner. “If the NPP…

Ghanaian-owned technology company, Rlg Limited has been awarded the contract to manufacture Set Top Boxes (STBs) for the country as the country inches closer to the final phase of its Digital Migration. This follows the commencement of work on the local production of STBs in Ghana. The sale and distribution of approved Digital Terrestrial Television (DDT) Receivers and Decoders will be rolled out in the early part of this year ahead of the migration to the digital platform. Government announced that Phase 1 of the multi-million-dollar Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network project had already been completed in April 2016 and…

Prior to the introduction of the professional practice of herbal medicine, made possible by way of formal education/training in Ghana through the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), the indigenous/informal practice of herbal medicine existed and still exists. The informal herbal medicine practice forms part of the Traditional medicine practices in Ghana. Traditional medicine has undergone lots of developments in effort to meet modern trends of healthcare delivery. The developments were made possible through successive government policies and the establishment of a Traditional and Alternative Medicine Directorate (TAMD) within the Ministry of Health to help with the implementation…

Dear Mr President, I write to inform you on the need to focus on the herbal medicine industry in your quest to tackle unemployment especially among graduates in Ghana. Let me first of all congratulate you on your election and inauguration as the 5th president of the 4th republic of Ghana. I came across a portion in the NPP’s manifesto under the “HEALTH” segment which with declaration to integrate Traditional medicine into the health delivery system in Ghana. Herbal medicine remains the only component of Traditional medicine that can be successfully integrated into the healthcare system as its practice is…

Although John Dramani Mahama has ceased to be Ghana’s president, his portraits are still mounted in the offices of ministries, departments, agencies and other State institutions, suggesting he is still the president. It has been a convention over the years for portraits of the president to be mounted in offices of state institutions. The supply of the portraits to these institutions have been the duty of the Ministry of Communication. But two days after exiting office on January 7, portraits of former President Mahama still hang on the walls of offices of State institutions, particularly the various ministries in Accra.…

Russia says US allegations that it ran a hacking campaign to influence the American presidential elections are “reminiscent of a witch-hunt”. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Moscow was tired of the accusations. He said a report released by US intelligence agencies detailing the allegations was groundless. It is the first official reaction from Russia since President-elect Donald Trump received the report on Friday. The unclassified report contains allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the hacking of Democratic Party emails to damage Donald Trump’s Democrat rival, Hillary Clinton, and influence the election. In his comments on Monday,…

Donald Trump has hit back over Meryl Streep’s criticism of him as she received a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes. Mr Trump tweeted: “Meryl Streep, one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood, doesn’t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. “She is a Hillary flunky who lost big.” Streep had referred to Mr Trump during her Globes acceptance speech without naming him. “It kind of broke my heart,” the three-time Oscar-winning actress told the Golden Globes audience in Beverly Hills on Sunday as she picked up the Cecil B.Mille award. “This instinct to humiliate,…

Some youth, believed to be members of the governing New Patriotic Party, today made botched attempts to takeover the offices of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Sagnerigu and Tamale metropolis. The about 30 youth stormed the NHIS offices in the Northern region Monday but their efforts to eject workers there were thwarted by the timely intervention of the police. The errant youth, nonetheless, insisted that the directors of the scheme should vacate their posts by Tuesday. They claimed the directors where appointed by the previous National Democratic Congress government, and must therefore leave office for new persons to be…